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michael cohen, who was floriane‘s tried several the company are keen for to me to a very warm welcome to bbc news — donald trump's lawyer for 10 exoskeletons but liked this one experience this from the inside, broadcasting to viewers years, has told a committee so much, she's now in north america of congress he fears there won't be working for the company. and so am i. and around the globe. so in order to try the device, my name's mike embley. a peaceful transfer of power our top stories: i need to be measured for it. if mr trump loses the 2020 election. sex, lies, and wikileaks — these measurements are essential donald trump's former lawyer and fixer gives michael cohen's already facing jail to calculate the recommended gait explosive testimony to congress for lying to congress for someone of my height and weight. and makes this prediction. and to the us government. it's a practically hands—free exo, so as well as walking, given my experience working she can do this. it's a heavy computing task, cohen's former boss, so calculations are actually done foertrump, ifear president trump, and the north on a server outside the suit. korean leader, kim jong—un, the results are then sent to the exoskeleton. there's also a surprising that if he loses the election in 2020, have just begun the second day amount of computing that there will never be a peaceful of their summit in hanoi. the device aims to improve movement going on inside the device. transition of power. for people with total day two of the summit in vietnam. or partial paralysis and, as well as the basic form of motion, mr trump said he was in no rush, after 18 months of trials, the latest version is finally ready how it should behave, but he is under pressure to secure the exo can make its own decisions, formal talks are underway right now. a plan for ending the north's nuclear programme. so if something unexpected happens the united nations, to sell to rehabilitation centres. donald trump says he's in no hurry to see progress. — say, my foot hits the ground the united states and china have all called on india and pakistan too late or if someone pushes it — and i'm sharanjit leyl live to descalate tensions. it works out how to respond. in hanoi, wherejust before india's demanded the return the design that we're trying is about 6—7 years of work, lean forward and push up. the talks began, kim jong—un took of a pilot who pakistan says it shot a question from the press pack. down after aunching a raid on indian and they're hoping to whoa. controlled territory. release a personal exo that's... that's amazing. in a couple of years or so, and that's currently secret. i can even lean sideways and crouch. it's behind me. i might take a peek. i can also change the direction imove in by leaning my body whilst walking. yep. i'm going to aim towards the right. oh, yes. oh, i can feel it going that way. it's about 3:30am.
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now on bbc news, click. this week, flashy folding phones. 0k. fashion face—off. this small remote activates the suit. the start—up‘s grown leaning forward at the right to around 50 employees, and, fantastic physio. speed and angle activates many motivated by family members an accelerometer on the back. who are or will soon be unable to walk. so one of the key things this starts the system walking. we are working on at the moment is allowing stroke patients to get inside the exo the more you use it, and retrain their walk with the exo. is it becoming easier, or was it easy straightaway? they slowly regain their ability to move, so you've got to tune the exo down in the assistance it's easy, because we have it brings over time. no pain, not fatigued, and it's better the company clearly has ambitions for my arms and shoulders because we have no crutches. beyond this, its first exoskeleton, and floriane is looking forward to shaping its future. back in 2016, we visited the cybathlon in zurich, a competition where people with limited mobility competed against each other with some of the most sophisticated physical augmentation devices on the planet. on trial were bionic arms, robotic prosthetics and exoskeletons, all being used to tackle some of the most challenging tasks faced by people with disabilities.
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brilliant. and a couple of years ago, we saw an exoskeleton helping workers to lift heavy items that was lj rich in paris. at an american hardware store. now, during our christmas and now, one company in france special last year, we showed you the first hands—on is using the tech to rehabilitate and give paraplegic patients with the new flexible phone. a chance to walk again. lj rich went to visit. created by chinese firm royole, its first phone has been five years in the making. one of its tricks is to unfold, creating a tablet. back injanuary, i caught up with the firm's boss, bill liu, and asked him how he'd managed to beat the likes of samsung and lg to create the world's first bendable phone. we focused on the flexible display because it's so hard, it's so difficult to make it happen. from the technology innovation point of view, you have to do a lot of innovations from the fundamental materials, process, device designs, circuit design, and then later product design, so that's why we invested $1.7 billion in shenzhen, china, to build up the 11.5 million square feet production facility for the mass production of the display.
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but i'd love to know whether the main problems are the fact that the connections break or the main problem is that you can't get the colours right on the bendy bit as the other bit, or obviously you need a replacement for glass — you can't have glass. the most challenging part is you have to manufacture millions of transistors, tiny circuits on top of the super thin flexible film, and the film is only several micrometres. it's thinner than our hair diameter, and it has to be very, very precise positioning. at the moment, the royole flexpai is only available to buy in china, but they're not the only ones going bendy. take a look at this tablet that folds twice to create a phone. its makers, xiaomi, say it is only an engineering model at the moment, though. another chinese firm, lenovo, has also previously teased that it's working on a similar product. for royole, though, this isn't just about wearables and phones.
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royole‘s vision is that flexible electronics will change the way we interact with the smart home and technology generally. that is the age of internet of things, so flexible displays, flexible sensors, flexible electronics, break the limitation of the phone factor, of the surface. eventually, all of these things will be smart, will be intelligent. that is where we see the flexible display‘s future. now we've heard rumours of samsung making a flexible phone for some time and this week, we finally got our answer at their latest launch. here's jen copestake. in a big surprise, samsung not only unveiled a folding phone but announced it would go on sale in two months‘ time, at a staggering cost ofjust under $2,000. called the galaxy fold, the phone opens up to make a 7.3—inch tablet display capable
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of running three apps at once. it includes a new type of hidden hinge, which they say can handle thousands of folds and unfolds, with a battery on each side to extend running time. the eye—watering price seems unusual, if not risky, considering the company said the cost of its s9 phones had led to lower—than—expected sales. but they say this is a luxury item, and a new category of device. also launched were the s10 series phones, the mid—range s10, cheaper s10e and the s10 plus. each new model of phone comes with a super—wide camera so you can get 123 degrees of vision, basically the same as a human eye, if you want that. the camera also allows you to use some artificial intelligence capabilities to improve the way you take photos. you can still unlock the phone with facial recognition, but samsung have done away with the iris scanner and they say this was to maximise
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the end—to—end display, which seems to be all the rage these days. the screen is maximised with a hole—punch camera and features a new security option. in—screen fingerprint sensors are becoming more and more popular and samsung says they've got something unique called an ultrasonic fingerprint sensor. it's different to a typical optical sensor, which takes a photograph of your thumb. instead, it measures the contours of your thumb. they say this will make it even more secure against spoofing, so it's not possible for someone to take a photocopy of your thumb and use it to open your device. one more surprise was the unveiling of samsung's sg—ready phone. we didn't get a price, but we can guess it won't be cheap. a sg—ready phone might give samsung a strategic jump on competitors like apple, but with widespread roll—out of the network not expected any time soon, they probably won't be flying off the shelves.
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of course, we're going to be hearing much more about 56 and all kinds of other phones next week, when click is at mobile world congress in barcelona. hello, and welcome to the week in tech. it was the week that politicians in the uk branded facebook "digital gangsters" in a report into fake news. the culture media and sport committee accused the company of obstructing its inquiry and failing to tackle russian interference in elections. facebook said it has already made changes, while mark zuckerberg is to meet the uk culture secretary. meanwhile, microsoft said it has discovered hacking attempts against democratic institutions, think tanks and non—profit organisations across europe. it's offered its tailored cyber security services to affected countries. and google admitted making an error in not revealing that one of its home alarm systems contained a microphone. it was only revealed when an update was announced to make the nest guard devices voice—controlled. remember the self—lacing smartphone—controlled shoes from nike? well, just days after launch,
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updates to the app for android users have stopped the smart capabilities from working. firmware updates bricking shoes — what a time to be alive. drivers in australia will soon to be able to make their licence plates a little more exciting, thanks to emojis. it was announced this week that from the 1st of march, they'll be able to add one of five emojis to their registration. insert eye roll here. and finally, we all know that you should never leave dogs in hot cars, so car maker tesla has introduced dog mode to its vehicles. when enabled, it will regulate the air—conditioning, as well as displaying a message on the car's dashboard, letting passers—by know that the dog's human will be back soon. it's all very well seeing what clothes look like on a model, but if you can't get your hands on them in the flesh, then you probably want to know what they are going to look like on you. well, at this year's london fashion week,
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thanks to some new technology, that's exactly what some members of the public are going to be able to experience. seeing themselves model some apparel from clothing brand hanger. here at london college of fashion, the perfect setup is being created. the lighting's right, the scene is right, this is where 50 participants have come to have their faces scanned, so that their image can replace that of the model's on the catwalk to see what the clothes would actually look like on them. so naturally i wanted a go too. firstly, i had to tie my hair back though, which i have to admit did instantly stop me from feeling like me. and i'm not meant to talk. using super personal‘s face—swap technology is speedy and simple, although it helps to have a willing volunteer to actually scan you. the results are broken down by neural networks that understand each little movement to be able to recreate your face on a believable moving image.
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it was important for us that the process was very simple. so it only takes 10—15 seconds to actually go through the registration. and also the results come faster. the whole processing takes only 30 minutes right now. but, of course, we all come in different shapes and sizes, so the app needs to cater for that. i'm certainly not the build of a catwalk model. for this project, only a few models‘ figures have been tracked. so it will choose the one closest to me or the other volunteers, although the eventual aim is to create accurate avatars based on any measurements. this is pretty impressive. the quality of the image, even when moving, really is so realistic. but the thing that really seems odd to me isn't the fact that i am wearing clothes i would never normally put on, but it's the way i'm moving. i can tell
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that's not my body language and they're not my mannerisms. and that's making it really quite peculiar to watch. we believe that this technology is very useful for online shopping, for users to see how they look in different clothes, especially for clothes that they'd never dare to wear or they want to just see how they would look in something a bit different. but also how they would look in something very classic, that they've never tried wearing, and generally exploring more options. and whilst i can totally see the benefits, i wasn't quite convinced on this change of image. vidcon 2019! whoo! yeah! last weekend the world's largest convention for online video makers, vidcon, was held in london, for the first time. and it was crammed full of social media stars. to give us a taste of the event,
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here's your guide, youtuber savan gandecha. hi, i'm savan, and i run a youtube channel called savanfilms. the videos i post focus a lot about my autism and my experiences. hey, everyone, and welcome to a brand new autism vlog series. when i tell people i have autism, most people are surprised, because apparently i don't look like someone who has it. there's no look. what do you feel is the correct way to talk about someone having autism? treat me the same as any person you would treat — as a human being. so i've been waiting for vidcon london to come to the uk since last year. i was really excited to come and see my friends, meet other creators, potentially collab with them in future. it's a lot of fun in general. i've always wanted something like this. it's a space where content creators can find out about the latest tools to make videos and test them out. hey, everyone, and welcome to savanfilms, and also welcome to bbc click. most of the vendors here
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know that if you want to attract this crowd, set up an instagram—worthy photo op. i'm going to try this. i have always been the creative type, even though that in the past, that's been like suppressed. i see youtube as a hobby, but also i see it as an outlet to create what i want to create. i feel that it's allowed me to be open to the world about what i have. vidcon is also where the fans can meet the people they follow online. many of the social media stars here have hundreds of thousands of followers. hello there, and let me be the first to say welcome back. why are you talking like that? i am with my good friend dean dobbs, he's a content creator on youtube.
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he's part of a comedy duo called jack & dean. how many subscribers do you have? i don't know exact. almost about 700,000. something like that. i put it in, there you go. no worries. it's really crazy, though. there are tons of people who come here. it's crazy because i have to, like, try and be the best version of myself all the time. because, you know, i wouldn't have any of this if it wasn't for people, invisible people on an internet computer watching it. so it is a pretty great thing. it feels more like i belong here. they treat me like a creator, a professional who's actually doing things. despite circumstances i have at the moment, i am trying my absolute best to do things. whilst i'm happy to be here, it also presents some challenges, being autistic. with my autism, it can be very overwhelming. just so much sensory process, various different noises, smells, brightness. hello, lovely people... so i've just metjessica. you are? a disabled youtuber. youtuber as well.
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indeed. my channel's all about how you can live a fun and fabulous and happy life despite having disabilities and chronic illness and deafness — all that kind of thing. pointing out that i don't sound deaf is probably the first thing that most people do when i meet them. the media world can seem quite difficult to break into, especially for disabled people. if you have a chronic illness, how are you going to start as a runner and build your way up to doing something? whereas when you're a youtuber, you're straight in there. first day, you're making a video and you're putting it out there. we have become more open about our issues. the millennial generation grew up with the tech, and we mastered it, to an extent, and the next generation is doing a betterjob, sometimes. i'll be happy learning new stuff and learning new tech and everything. so that's a wrap on vidcon london. hope you guys enjoyed watching.
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take care, guys, and sav out. thanks, sav. brilliant stuff, that's savan gandecha. now, over the last few weeks, we've been chatting to the visual effects artists behind some of our favourite films of the last year. with the academy awards now upon us, what better way to finish off the series than with a look at the oscar—nominated first man? do you question whether the programme is worth the cost — in money and in lives? what are the chances of you not coming back? it's always tricky. i guess, as a visual effects artist, you want your work to be seen. but for something like this, where it's documentary style, it really needs to fit with how the rest of the footage is shot. paul lambert, i worked with him on blade runner. he was invited down to meet with damien chazelle to talk over the show first man. and once they decided on trying to keep things in camera, paul brought me on board to try to work out what is the best way to do this.
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paul came up with the idea of having a giant led screen. we'd get the footage ready, let's say, for the x—15 sequences. get that footage running well. damien wanted it to run as a full sequence, so it was something like 10,000 frames. we ended up using a terragen for the x—15 cloud sequence. i guess it simulates how light reacts in an earth environment, when you're up at the top section of the atmosphere. just as neil bounces off the atmosphere, you get that nice blue line of the horizon, which is mathematically correct for the earth's atmosphere. so it was fantastic for us to be able to use that. because we had the real—world numbers of his flight path and how high he went. so when you are looking through it, that is probably pretty close to what he saw when he was up there. we have serious problems. the special effects guys, jd schwam and his team, they had the gimbal motion base. they worked out a way
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so when the gimbal tilted forward, you can have the correct movement on the screen as well. for certain scenes, it was almost like being in a simulator. so the actors got something to work with as well. rather than having a green screen, i suppose, and saying, you're diving down towards the earth now, give us a reaction, he's actually there, he's in it and he's tilting forward in it. when you're sat there, it actually feels like you're in the plane going down. so nasa gave us access to a lot of archival footage from the apollo programme. so we scoured through most of that. there were a couple of thingsin there which i don't think have been seen before. there's one in particular,
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which is a sort of mid—shot of the saturn v rocket. it's got the blast—off. it's obviously shot at a square aspect ratio. we had to expand the sides — left and right — with a rocket thrust, which was quite intricate. it actually came together pretty quickly, once we had the simulation working right, and we just had to match the lighting and the look to the main footage. the main footage in the middle stayed as it was. we ran it through our archival processing set up and then blended it with the cg at the edges. that shot was a great shot to work on and see come together. that's one small step for man,
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one giant leap for mankind. wow. brilliant. and we wish the team behind first man and all the other 0scar nominees the very best of luck for this weekend's ceremony. that is it for us for this weekend. we are at the mobile world congress in barcelona next weekend. in the meantime, you can follow us on social media. we live on facebook, youtube, instagram, and twitter @bbcclick. thanks for watching and we'll see you soon. hello there. the setting sun on wednesday marked the end of this balmy, warm spell for february, which has brought record—breaking temperatures. and we are returning to something back to near normal, with some wet and windy this weekend. the big area of high pressure ebbs away, the high pressure which brought the southerly winds and we see the influence coming back in the atlantic, areas of low pressure developing with weather fronts, and as they hurtle towards our shores and also drag in some cooler air from the north atlantic, right across the country, as you can see here. so we start to see the change early this morning taking place across the south—west corner of england into wales, increasing breeze, more cloud with showery bursts of rain but elsewhere largely dry start to thursday, low cloud, mist, and fog and quite a chilly start. so we could start off with a little bit of early brightness this morning, some low cloud, mist and fog, but quickly conditions
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go downhill across much of england and wales as showery bursts of rain moving, strong winds as well, in fact it will be windy across the south coast into the south—west. the best of dry and bright weather across scotland but notice the temperatures, 8—13 degrees, much cooler than we've been used to but still above seasonal average. for friday, not a bad day, we are in between weather systems, high pressure will bring a fine dry day, variable cloud, some spells of sunshine but the next weather front will bring some wet weather to northern ireland later in the day. and again those temperatures, low teens celsius at best, that band of rain moves through during friday night and into the weekend for the first of a series of low pressure systems which will bring some wet and windy weather to our shores this weekend. it will feel cooler as well for all, particularly because of the strength of the wind and the rain that we are seeing. saturday, then, start off dry with some brightness around by the winds will it continue to increase, quite a wet afternoon i think for many of some of the rain could be quite heavy across the north and west. something a bit brighter later on for northern ireland and we could even start to see something a little bit wintry on the tops of the mountains of scotland. those temperatures again ranging 9— 1a degrees. above average. sunday's chart shows the feature
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to the north and the south. uncertainty as to how far north of the rain will be but it looks like some southern areas could be windy and wet throughout sunday. further north, wet and windy with some snow over the higher ground scotland. in between there could be a slice of slightly drier weather, but you will have to keep tuned to the weather forecast for this. 00:22:17,121 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 will feel much cooler.
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